"Legal guardian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... riding over from Shrewsbury? Well, his father came today—Sir Richard Cludde, a big red-faced bully of a man. He's Lucy's uncle, you know; her father was his brother, and they quarreled, and hadn't seen each other for twenty years. But now he declares that he is Lucy's legal guardian; his brother died suddenly and left no will, and he came today to claim her as his ward. Father wouldn't hear of it; but told him Lucy had been brought here by the express command of her father, and he refused to give her up. The squire was in a terrible rage: 'tis ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... and they accepted without argument or questioning in the general excitement, that he would have himself appointed their legal guardian. ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim |
